FC1.0 Install in VMWare VM
Matthew Rex
mrex at bigpond.com
Fri Nov 21 08:01:53 UTC 2003
clemens at dwf.com wrote:
>>I'm installing Fedora Core 1.0 in a VMWare VM.
>>I created a 6G virtual disk and am trying to install
>>all packages. So far, I have two problems:
>>
>>1. At the end of the install, it prompts me to make a
>> boot floppy, but then says the modules required are
>> too large to fit on a floppy. What would be so
>> special about the VM environment that it needs
>> so many packages that it can't make a boot disk?
>>
>>
>>
>Its not a VMWare specific message. I got the same thing installing
>on a PIII with no special hardware on it.
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Did you use LVM for the install? I get this message when trying to make
a boot disk for an install on LVM partitions. Same thing happens in
Redhat 9. No VMware involved.
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